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I am new to MapBasic. I googled for tutorials and found various pdf's but could not get started with the resources. I would be glad if anyone could provide some path for learning MapBasic.

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I was lucky enough to learn MapBasic from some other colleagues. I have not found many resources for MapBasic other than what Pitney Bowes offers on the site.
I spotted this tutorial that looks fairly good for new starters.

There is currently only a handful of MapBasic questions on this site, and only a few people following that tag, but if you have more specific questions, feel free to ask here and we will try and help out.

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I would add the MapInfo-L google group to that list for help: groups.google.com/group/mapinfo-l/topics – Nathan W Jun 19 '11 at 12:25
Yes, good point, I subscribe to that and its helped me a lot with MapBasic Qs – Simon Jun 20 '11 at 5:39
The tutorial with the link is incomplete :( – Kitex Jun 28 '11 at 22:36
Still works for me. This 1 right: tydac.ch/de/pdf/mapbasic.pdf – Simon Jun 29 '11 at 1:49
yea the tutorial link works but it's pages are stripped off. :( – Kitex Jul 1 '11 at 5:44
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Also if you are looking for a way to learn MapBasic more than a way to learn programming, there is a huge help in MapInfo Pro thru the MapBasic window. Open the MapBasic window (Options > Show MapBasic Window) and do the task you want to code in MapBasic in MapInfo Pro. MapInfo Pro will now wirte the MapBasic statements required. You can now copy these into your MapBasic source code and work from this. It's not all that can be done this way, but it gives you a very good insight into a lot of the MapBasic statements

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Not a tutorial but something I found very useful is this site: http://www.twiav.nl/php/mapbasic.php

I would highly recommend setting up Notepad++ (or something similar). Syntax highlighting, bulk indenting and bulk commenting can speed things up massively.

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